In Swedish magazine Nära, I found an article about raw food. Fine, I like it. In connection with this article, I found a fact box about food karma - the top list.
It tells, karma is energy, so to speak all the collected activity during the existence of a human being. What you have done, what you have not done, in life.
Personally, I thought karma had something to do with actions of choice, and foremost actions in adult age. Simply, trying to behave in a way other people, or yourself, won't be hurt or injured in any kind of way more than what is really necessary. To our assistance, there is culture.
But karma food is different. What is giving you bad karma and what is giving you good karma is not in agreement with west world culture. We would have a hard time living like that. And even if we should live like that, we would probably, we would probably be saddled with a nutritional deficits.
Here's the list!
Good karma
- Breast milk, given with love
- Rich fruits, like olives and avocado
- Sweet fruits, like pear, banana, orange, melon and berries
- Non-sweet food, like cucumber, tomato, aubergine and pepper
- Raw food made with love
Neutral karma
- Milk from cows which willingly is being milked
- Algae
- Edible flowers, like lavender and marigold
- Herbs where leaves have been picked, but bush is still in soil, basil for example
Bad karma
- Herbs where the whole plant has been used, has been taken from soil, sprouts and coconuts
- Nuts and seeds which could have been sowed to be trees and bushes
- Hybrid root vegetable, like carrots, potatoes, beet roots
- Egg
- Fish
- Milk from subjugated animals
- Animal muscles, meat
- Intestines and blood (the last is the worst)
Okay, where to start...
An infant, whose mother cannot breast feed from any reason, also medical where the mother did not have an own choice, or that the mother, also from any reason, cannot be present in her baby's life - maybe she is not still alive... all those kids, are they going to end up with negative markers for life on his or her karma? The article do not expressly tell. It doesn't tell about breast milk alternatives at all.
And how to give breast milk with love more specifically? Could you measure a mother's behaviour here? Feelings? Smiles? Commitment? I just wonder... how do I know if I put in enough love in early food of my children?
Milk from a cow, willingly being milked. What?
At first sight, a cow of today, is not giving its milk willingly. Milk pumps on her teats may not be to funny. But in the 19th century, when a servant girl came 4 in the morning and toiled and pulled the cow's teats, was that better? Maybe the cow liked the close moment she shared with the servant girl. But if I was a cow, I think, it might have something to do with the servant girl itself, or today, how the milker is behaving around his or her cows. A cow of today is not really know of any other life and from this, it has accepted being a milk cow. And what is willingly? That you do not have to fight with the cow to have her milk? That the cow accepted and let people treat her however they want to? That she meat her milker with a smile every morning, almost like she's milked herself? And how do I know, as a consumer, how the cow is looking at the milk in specifically this bottle I hold in my hand at the moment, is it given willingly or unwillingly? How can I measure if I swallow neutral or negative karma?
Carrots, potatoes, beet roots... hmm...
Egg - but if hen is willingly giving her eggs away (allusions to milk and cow above)? After all, we are talking about infertilized eggs here. Human women may donate their egg for others to have children. How does a hen think?
Meat and fish I actually understand on a list like this. In this case, you eat from other living individuals, or more specifically, you eat individuals who has been alive.
I can't find any sort of environmental thinking, for example when we are talking about bananas or oranges travelling all over the world before end up in my kitchen. Nor can I find any thought of work rights round certain kind of foods. Berries for example, good karma, but the poor strawberry pickers who sometimes work under not very much reasonable working conditions... I should now support their employers?
I reckon they haven't thought of that they remove certain sorts of plants to fill upp cultivated land with pear tree and tomato plants to keep karma of people in good levels. But potatoes then? And carrots? Are they being deported to the list of endangered sorts? Or are they getting a new function, like people are going to enjoy greens from those plants in their gardens.
REFERENCE:
Walles, Madeleine (2013). Sommarfest med raw food. Nära 6/2013 (Swedish magazine).
